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Premier Crossword: Great Parking Spots

- BY Frank a. Longo #2,107

ACROSS

1 Fencing lunge 7 Large wine bottles

14 Derisive imitator 20 Theater area 21 U.S. soccer star

Megan 22 Chimney flue, e.g. 23 Start of a riddle 26 Woes

27 Ketchup’s color 28 “The Great

Gatsby” star 29 Running the show,

for short

31 Illinois’ tree 33 Twisty letter 34 Riddle, part 2 44 Made gentle 45 Source of some

milk

46 Source of some

milk

47 Earthy color 48 Dark deli breads 49 Kind of internalco­mbustion engine 52 Bygone jet, for short

53 Just one sip 54 Riddle, part 3 58 Throw lightly 59 Shoe tip 60 Puzzle cube creator Rubik 61 Cousins of counties 63 Etchings, e.g. 64 Baseball hitter’s stat

65 Shows’ actors 67 With 83-Down, Idaho’s nickname 68 TV drama of 2000-15

71 10K or marathon 73 Con job 74 Fabled bird 75 Japanese wrestling 78 Riddle, part 4 82 Ionize, e.g. 84 Pioneered 85 Alternativ­e to Roy Rogers 86 Slightly 87 Protruding belly button

88 Tax mo.

89 Tax pro 90 Ghana’s largest city

91 End of the riddle 97 — -Cat

98 Raw metal

99 Rip up

100 It fixes off-key singing

105 “I’d say,” to texters 107 Simple wind instrument­s 112 Riddle’s answer 115 Enkindle 116 Peanut, castor bean or canola 117 Long pastry 118 Earned after taxes 119 Cozies up 120 Taco exteriors

DOWN

1 Quick haircut 2 Old 45 player 3 Performs like Cardi B

4 Title beekeeper of a 1997 film 5 Raged violently 6 Subjects of discussion 7 City in central California 8 “— -di-dah!”

9 On — with (much like)

10 Distribute

11 At a future point in time

12 Trio before Q 13 Blood fluids 14 Simba’s father in “The Lion King” 15 Unfilled part of a schedule

16 PC key near Shift 17 2009-10 “American Idol” judge Dioguardi 18 Scraped (out) 19 Funny Foxx 24 Viking Ericson 25 Funeral poem 30 Assemblage 32 Mouths or faces, slangily

34 Tiers

35 Singer Swift 36 Eggy entree 37 Remainder 38 Seaport on Italy’s “heel” 39 “That’s a lie!” 40 Future docs’ exams

41 Very, very 42 Match divisions

43 Very, in Paris 49 Long-winded 50 Limited

51 Gold, in Gijon 52 Edinburgh inhabitant 53 Patterned wool blankets

55 Long deli sandwich 56 “Barnaby Jones” star Buddy 57 Major protest 62 Kind of internalco­mbustion engine 65 Mollycoddl­e 66 Battery liquid 68 Thing relied on for support

69 Like a day in June, per a Lowell poem 70 Roofing problem in cold weather 71 In favor of the idea 72 Activist Nader 73 Long deli sandwich 75 Garbage boat 76 “Nothin’ doin’ ” 77 — Hari (spy) 79 Stare stupidly

80 Unravels 81 Envoy’s skill 83 See 67-Across 88 Woe

89 One who may study bonds 90 CIA spy Ames 92 Accustomed 93 Test runs 94 Triads, e.g. 95 Western U.S. gas brand 96 Things raked in autumn

100 Neat as — 101 Compulsion 102 Color slightly 103 Fail to include 104 Inflation subj. 106 Pitcher Hershiser 108 Inactive 109 Actress Patricia 110 Edible bit of a pomegranat­e or litchi 111 Estonia and Latvia, once: Abbr.

113 Go fast, quaintly 114 — Wee Reese

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